Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, and the consumer conundrum
By: Marc Schuster.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Youngstown, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781604975048
Subjects: DeLillo, Don -- Criticism and interpretation; Baudrillard, Jean, -- 1929-2007; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Consumption (Economics) -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shopping for its own sake : Don DeLillo's system of objects; title: Escaping the third person singular : Americana and the semiotic challenge; title: Another media event? : Players and the specter of terrorism; title: Calculating terror : signification and symbolic exchange in Don DeLillo's The names; title: Seduction of the ambivalent : fatal strategy in Libra; title: Beat away from elevator music : Mao II and the artist in opposition; title: To vandalize their eyeballs : Underworld's graffiti instinct; title: Slow, spare, and painful : body time and object time in The body artist; title: Conclusion : an element of doubt : Cosmopolis and the specter of ambivalence; title: Postscript : creating a structure out of willful trivia : Falling man and the unbearable ambivalence of being.